EP0052908A2 - Feeding device for a jet mill - Google Patents

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EP0052908A2
EP0052908A2 EP81201304A EP81201304A EP0052908A2 EP 0052908 A2 EP0052908 A2 EP 0052908A2 EP 81201304 A EP81201304 A EP 81201304A EP 81201304 A EP81201304 A EP 81201304A EP 0052908 A2 EP0052908 A2 EP 0052908A2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B02—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
    • B02C—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
    • B02C23/00—Auxiliary methods or auxiliary devices or accessories specially adapted for crushing or disintegrating not provided for in preceding groups or not specially adapted to apparatus covered by a single preceding group
    • B02C23/02—Feeding devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B02—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
    • B02C—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
    • B02C19/00—Other disintegrating devices or methods
    • B02C19/06—Jet mills

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  • the present invention is concerned with a device for preliminary crushing of a possibly clogged, finely divided material to be ground and for feeding of the said material into a jet mill containing a compressed flow of circulating grinding gas and material, so as to produce ultra-fineground admixtures to be used in industry.
  • the grinding gas jet of the ejector sucks considerable quantities of air through the feeding funnel into the jet mill along with the material, which air has an adverse effect on the grinding result and on the recovery of heat from the grinding gas after the grinding.
  • the higher viscosity of the air present during the grinding makes the grinding heterogeneous, which in particular makes the classification of the ground material more difficult.
  • Such a prior-art feeding device additionally imposes high requirements on the consistency of the material to be ground.
  • the material should be preferably dry, and it should definitely not be clogged, whereas clogging, however, frequently occurs especially in winter, when the material is frozen during intermediate storage. In such a case the material must be crushed carefully before passing into the feeding funnel of the jet mill, which frequently results in unnecessary interruptions in operation.
  • An ejector feeder consumes about 20 per cent of the total energy consumption of the grinding process.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a device that replaces the ejector or injector feeder and eliminates all of the above drawbacks related to such a feeder.
  • the device in accordance with the present invention is characterized in that it comprises a substantially vertical so-called plug pipe, which is at its upper end provided with a feeder funnel and which is at its bottom end,either directly or.via an additional pipe, connected to the jet mill above the zone'of the grinding gas nozzle.
  • a pushing means is provided which is in itself known and which moves back and forth, the said pushing means both crushing any clogged material and forcing the crushed material as a tight plug through the pipe into the jet mill.
  • the pushing means may consist of two or more separate pistons centrally arranged in the feeder funnel and moving in the direction of the plug pipe, or of a pressing roller arranged at the upper end of the plug pipe or feeder funnel and moving transversally back and forth.
  • the device in accordance with the invention for preliminary crushing of a possibly clogged material to be ground and for feeding of the said material into a jet mill 4 containing a compressed flow of circulating grinding gas and material comprises a substantially vertical plug pipe 1, which is at its upper end provided with a feeder funnel 2 and which is at its bottom end, either directly or via-.an additional pipe 3, connected to the jet mill 4 above the zone of the grinding gas nozzle.
  • a substantially vertical plug pipe 1 which is at its upper end provided with a feeder funnel 2 and which is at its bottom end, either directly or via-.an additional pipe 3, connected to the jet mill 4 above the zone of the grinding gas nozzle.
  • This device is suitable for feeding both dry and moist material, the said material, by the effect of the pushing means 5, forming such a tight plug that the overpressure of 1 to 2 bar present in the jet mill 4 cannot be discharged.
  • the pushing means 5 for example, two or more pistons can be employed which are arranged centrally in the feeder funnel 2 and which move back and forth in the direction of the plug pipe 1.
  • the pushing cylinders 6 operating these pistons can be fixed, e.g., to a partition wall provided in the plug pipe and/or in the feeder funnel.
  • a cover plate with slanting faces is appropriately provided above the said pushing cylinders 6 so as to facilitate the supply of material into the feeder funnel 2.
  • a substantially horizontal pressing roller is used which is arranged at the upper end of the plug pipe 1 or of the feeder funnel 2 and which moves transversally to the plug pipe 1 back and forth, whereby the roller, acting like a rolling pin, both crushes any clogged material and forces the crushed material through the plug pipe into the jet mill.
  • the plug pipe 1 is connected to the jet mill 4 by means of an inclined additional pipe 3, it is appropriate to provide this additional pipe 3 with a screw feeder 8 whose centre part is provided with a through channel and which is driven, e.g., by an electric motor 8a.
  • the main function of.the screw feeder is to equalize the pulsed feeding movement produced by the pushing means, especially by pushing pistons, in the material.
  • the plug pipe 1 may be either vertical or inclined and of any arbitrary cross-sectional form, e.g. circular or angular.
  • the cross-sectional area of the plug 1 is in the longitudinal direction of the pipe either throughout equal, or positively relieving towards the jet mill 4.
  • the feeding device in accordance with the present invention, an intake of air into the jet mill is avoided, so that the material is ground more uniformly so that its classification is simpler and easier.
  • the jet mill can be dimensioned as considerably smaller than earlier,- because the ratio between the quantity of gas and the material to be ground contained in the mill can be kept at the optimum. It is a remarkable advantage that the energy consumed by this feeder is only a fraction of the energy consumed by an ejector feeder.

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Abstract

The present invention is concerned with a device for preliminary crushing of a possibly clogged, material to be ground and for feeding of the said material into a jet mill containing a compressed flow of circulating grinding gas and material, so as to produce ultra-fineground admixtures to be used in industry. In prior art, exclusively ejector-type or injector-type feeder devices were used as feeder devices of jet mills of the said type, in which feeders the shifting of material into the pressurized mill takes place by means of the grinding gas. Besides their high energy consumption, another drawback of these prior-art feeder devices consists thereof that the grinding gas jet of the ejector, consisting of water vapour, sucks considerable quantities of air into the jet mill, along with the material, which causes a heterogeneous grinding result and makes the recovery of heat after the grinding difficult. In order to eliminate these drawbacks, a device in accordance with the above invention has been developed, which comprises a substantially vertical so-called plug pipe, which is at its upper end provided with a feeder funnel and which is at its bottom end, either directly or via an additional pipe, connected to the jet mill above the zone of the grinding gas nozzle. At the upper end of the plug pipe, preferably in its feeder funnel, at least one pushing means is provided which moves back and forth and which both crushes any clogged material and forces the crushed material as a tight plug through the pipe into the jet mill.

Description

  • The present invention is concerned with a device for preliminary crushing of a possibly clogged, finely divided material to be ground and for feeding of the said material into a jet mill containing a compressed flow of circulating grinding gas and material, so as to produce ultra-fineground admixtures to be used in industry.
  • In prior art, exclusively ejector-type or injector-type feeder devices were used as feeder devices of jet mills of the said type, the said feeders being quite unsatisfactory in many respects, especially in view of energy economy and of operation. In these prior-art devices the shifting of the material into the pressurized mill takes place by means of the grinding gas. In order to produce ultra-fineground particles, the most appropriate grinding gas is water vapour, for example the water vapour obtained from the outblow of a pulp mill boiler in accordance with the FI Patent Application 803256.
  • During feeding, the grinding gas jet of the ejector sucks considerable quantities of air through the feeding funnel into the jet mill along with the material, which air has an adverse effect on the grinding result and on the recovery of heat from the grinding gas after the grinding. The higher viscosity of the air present during the grinding makes the grinding heterogeneous, which in particular makes the classification of the ground material more difficult.
  • Such a prior-art feeding device additionally imposes high requirements on the consistency of the material to be ground. The material should be preferably dry, and it should definitely not be clogged, whereas clogging, however, frequently occurs especially in winter, when the material is frozen during intermediate storage. In such a case the material must be crushed carefully before passing into the feeding funnel of the jet mill, which frequently results in unnecessary interruptions in operation.
  • An ejector feeder consumes about 20 per cent of the total energy consumption of the grinding process.
  • The object of the present invention is to provide a device that replaces the ejector or injector feeder and eliminates all of the above drawbacks related to such a feeder.
  • The device in accordance with the present invention is characterized in that it comprises a substantially vertical so-called plug pipe, which is at its upper end provided with a feeder funnel and which is at its bottom end,either directly or.via an additional pipe, connected to the jet mill above the zone'of the grinding gas nozzle. At the upper end of the plug pipe, preferably in its feeder funnel, at least one pushing means is provided which is in itself known and which moves back and forth, the said pushing means both crushing any clogged material and forcing the crushed material as a tight plug through the pipe into the jet mill.
  • The pushing means may consist of two or more separate pistons centrally arranged in the feeder funnel and moving in the direction of the plug pipe, or of a pressing roller arranged at the upper end of the plug pipe or feeder funnel and moving transversally back and forth.
  • The further characteristics of the invention come out from the attached patent claims.
  • The invention will be described in more detail with reference to the attached drawing, wherein
    • Figure 1 is a side view of a device in accordance with the invention,
    • Figure 2 shows the device as viewed from another side, with the additional pipe removed, and
    • Figure 3 a part of the device as viewed from the top.
  • The device in accordance with the invention for preliminary crushing of a possibly clogged material to be ground and for feeding of the said material into a jet mill 4 containing a compressed flow of circulating grinding gas and material comprises a substantially vertical plug pipe 1, which is at its upper end provided with a feeder funnel 2 and which is at its bottom end, either directly or via-.an additional pipe 3, connected to the jet mill 4 above the zone of the grinding gas nozzle. At the upper end of the plug pipe 1, preferably in its feeder funnel 2, at least one pushing means 5 is provided which moves back and forth, the said pushing means 5 both crushing any clogged material-and forcing the crushed material as a tight plug through the pipe 1, 2 into the jet mill 4.
  • This device is suitable for feeding both dry and moist material, the said material, by the effect of the pushing means 5, forming such a tight plug that the overpressure of 1 to 2 bar present in the jet mill 4 cannot be discharged.
  • As the pushing means 5, for example, two or more pistons can be employed which are arranged centrally in the feeder funnel 2 and which move back and forth in the direction of the plug pipe 1. The pushing cylinders 6 operating these pistons can be fixed, e.g., to a partition wall provided in the plug pipe and/or in the feeder funnel. A cover plate with slanting faces is appropriately provided above the said pushing cylinders 6 so as to facilitate the supply of material into the feeder funnel 2.
  • Another possibility is that,as the pushing means, a substantially horizontal pressing roller is used which is arranged at the upper end of the plug pipe 1 or of the feeder funnel 2 and which moves transversally to the plug pipe 1 back and forth, whereby the roller, acting like a rolling pin, both crushes any clogged material and forces the crushed material through the plug pipe into the jet mill.
  • If the plug pipe 1 is connected to the jet mill 4 by means of an inclined additional pipe 3, it is appropriate to provide this additional pipe 3 with a screw feeder 8 whose centre part is provided with a through channel and which is driven, e.g., by an electric motor 8a. The main function of.the screw feeder is to equalize the pulsed feeding movement produced by the pushing means, especially by pushing pistons, in the material.
  • The plug pipe 1 may be either vertical or inclined and of any arbitrary cross-sectional form, e.g. circular or angular. The cross-sectional area of the plug 1 is in the longitudinal direction of the pipe either throughout equal, or positively relieving towards the jet mill 4.
  • By means of the feeding device in accordance with the present invention, an intake of air into the jet mill is avoided, so that the material is ground more uniformly so that its classification is simpler and easier. Moreover, the jet mill can be dimensioned as considerably smaller than earlier,- because the ratio between the quantity of gas and the material to be ground contained in the mill can be kept at the optimum. It is a remarkable advantage that the energy consumed by this feeder is only a fraction of the energy consumed by an ejector feeder.
  • It is evident that various details of the device can be formulated in many different ways within the scope of the invention.

Claims (6)

1. A device for preliminary crushing of a. possibly clogged, finely divided material to be ground and for feeding of the said material into a jet mill containing a compressed flow of circulating grinding gas and material, so as to produce ultra-fineground admixtures to be.used in industry, characterized in that the device comprises a substantially vertical sorcalled plug pipe (1), which is at its upper end provided with a feeder funnel (2) and which is at its bottom end, either directly or via an additional pipe (3), connected to the jet mill above the zone of the grinding gas nozzle, and that, at the upper end of the plug pipe, preferably in its feeder funnel, at least one pushing means (5) is provided which is in itself known and which moves back and forth, the said pushing means (5) both crushing any clogged material and forcing the crushed material as a tight plug through the pipes (1) into the jet mill (4).
2. A device as claimed in claim I, characterized in that the pushing means (5) consists of two or more separate pistons arranged centrally in the feeder funnel (2) and moving in the direction of the plug pipe (1).
3. A device as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that in the plug pipe and/or in the feeder funnel there is a central partition wall to which the pushing cylinders operating the pistons are fixed.
4. A device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the pushing means consists of a substantially horizontal pressing roller provided at the upper end of the plug pipe (1) or feeder funnel '(2) and moving back and forth transversally to the plug pipe (1).
5. A device as claimed in any of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that a screw feeder (8), whose middle portion is provided with a through channel, is mounted in an inclined additional pipe (3), which connects the vertical plug pipe (1) to the jet mill (4).
6. A device as claimed in any of the preceding claims, characterized in that the plug pipe (1) is of any arbitrary cross-sectional form and in the longitudinal direction either throughout of the same size or positively relieving towards the jet mill (4).
EP81201304A 1980-11-25 1981-11-23 Feeding device for a jet mill Expired EP0052908B1 (en)

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AT81201304T ATE28277T1 (en) 1980-11-25 1981-11-23 FEED DEVICES FOR JET MILLS.

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FI803663A FI62235C (en) 1980-11-25 1980-11-25 INMATNINGSANORDNING FOER STRAOLKVARN

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NO153953C (en) 1986-06-25
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